| TBMI17 | Medical Information Systems, 9 ECTS credits. /Medicinska informationssystem/ |
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 66 |
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Area of Education: Medicine Subject area: Biomedical Engineering |
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| Advancement level
(A-D): C
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| Aim: The overall aim of this course is to give the ability to analyze the role of information technology in the health care sector. After the course the participants should have acquired basic knowledge on structured storage and retrieval of medical information. The participants should also be familiar with the structure, function and use of the patient record. Furthermore, the aim is to practice written and oral communication and that the participants improve their information literacy. |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) TBME01 Biomedical Engineering or TBME02 Anatomy and Physiology Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Supplementary courses: TBMI27 Classification and Decision Support and TBMI26 Neural networks and learning systems |
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| Organisation: Lectures (32 hours), laboratory experiments (12 hours), seminars (12 hours), home work and project work. The course extends over a major part of the fall semester. |
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| Course contents: Properties of medical data - Regulations, structure, content and use of the medical record - The computer-based record - The concepts of care process and care chain - Properties of general medical knowledge and patient-specific information - Indexing of medical literature and patient information - Measures of information quality and results of information retrieval - Representation of medical terminology - Nomenclatures, classification systems and terminology projects - Security and privacy in patient information processing - Audit and quality assurance |
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| Course literature: Shortliffe EH, Perreault LE, eds. Medical informatics: computer applications in health care and biomedicine. New York: Springer; 2001 and a supplementary compendium |
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| Essay assignments Written and oral presentation of the project Laboratory work Tutorial sessions |
3 p 2 p 1 p 0 p |
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| If the number of exchange students is large the teaching language is English. If not, the exchange students will be tutored individually. | |||
Course language is Swedish/English. Department offering the course: IMT. Director of Studies: Göran Salerud Examiner: Håkan Petersson Link to the course homepage at the department Course Syllabus in Swedish |
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